Motor-vehicle.



No. 707,695. Patented Aug. 26, |902.

J.V H. HADLEY. MOTOR VEHICLE. (Appximion med nec. 27, lom (No Model.)

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JOSEPH II. HOADLEY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE PNEUMATIC CARRIAGE COMPANY, OF'NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,695, dated. August 26, 1902.

Application iiled December 27, 1900. Serial No. 41,211. (No model.)

To @ZZ 1071.071?, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. HOADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor-Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in motor-vehicles; and its object is to provide Io means for driving from the same motor two independently-mounted steering-wheels of the steering-truck, so as to obtain in one construction the advantages resulting from independently-mounted steering-wheels, traction through the steering-wheels, and propulsion bya single motor. The use of a single motor has certain advantages in efliciency and economy; but my invention does not preclude the use of more than one motor, provided they 2o are mechanically connected to act as a single driving agent. A

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of a vehicletruck, showing in elevation the parts constituting my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line :c o: in Fig. 1.

1 represents the truck or running-gear frame, and 2 2 the front or steering wheels, which in this oase are also the driving-wheels.

3o Each wheel 2 is mounted to rotate on a short axle or pivot 3, whose hub or collar 4f is mounted to turn or swivel on a pivot journaled in bearings 6 on the truck-frame, said bearings embracing the hub of the axle 3, so as to support the truck vertically. It will be understood that steering devices (not shown) would be connected to the respective independent axles 3 3 to turn them on the pivots 5 to proper position for steering.

The Vehicle body or frame 7 is supported from the truck by springs-for example, the semi-elliptic springs 8 8, connected, respectively, to the vehicle-body 7 and to the truckframe l-links or suspension devices 9 being preferably provided for one of the said springs, so as to permit a certain amount of relative lateral movement of the vehicle-body and the truck-frame.

The driving-motor 10, which may be an elec- 5o tric or other motor, is spring-supported, preferably by being mounted on the vehicle-body 7, and connecting or transmitting mechanism is employed which drives the steering-wheels 2 2 by the power of said motor, while allowing for relative movement of the vehicle-body and truck and while also allowing free movement'of the steering-wheel axles abouttheir pivots. For this purpose I provide means for driving each wheel 2 through a gear concentric with the swivel or pivot 5 of said wheel, so that motion of said wheel around said pivot Will not affect the powertransmission, and I also provide an extensible connection in the powertransmitting devices which permits of the upand-down movement of the vehiclebody and the motor. Each spindle 5 carries one member 11 of an extensible coupling, which member consists of a disk or hub with cross-grooves 1l therein, and the other member of such coupling consisting of cross-flanges 12 on a shaft 12, mounted in bearings 13 on vehicle-body 7. The shafts or spindles 5 5 carry bevel-wheels 14 14, engaging, respectively, with bevelgears 15 15 on the vehicle-wheels 2 2, and the upper shafts 12 12 carry bevel-wheels 16 16, engaging with bevel-wheels 17 17, respectively,`on a shaft 18 and on a shaft 19, connected to said shaft 18 by a compensating gear. The shaft 18 passes axially through the motor-shaft 20, and said shaft 20 carries the pinions 2l of the compensating' gear, whose main bevel-wheels 22 are respectively attached to the two shafts 18 and 19. The object of the compensating-gear connection is to permit the Wheels to move with different velocities in rounding curves.

By means of the above arrangement the motor is spring-supported as awhole-that is, no part of the same is in rigid connection with the axle-and the protection ot' the motor from injury is therefore as full as possible. The vehicle-body can rise and fall and even rock or swing from side to side Without appreciably affecting the efficiency of transmission, as the members 1l 12 of the couplings simply slide on one another during such movements.

` By the term gear as herein used I mean any suitable power transmitting wheel, whether toothed or frictional.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. In a motor-vehicle, the combination with the traction-wheels and their independent shafts, and the truck-frame to which said shafts are pivotally connected, yof a vehicleframe spring-supported on the truck-frame, a

Vmotor carried by said vehicle-frame, a shaft shafts, and the truck-frame to which said shafts are pivotally connected, of a vehicleframe spring-supported on the truck-frame, a motor carried by said vehicle-frame; a shaft connected to said motor, shafts on the springsupported vehicle-frame in line with the pivotal shafts for the traction-wheels, connections comprising bevel-gears from the motorshaft to the other spring-supported shafts, the connection to one of said shafts also comprisinga compensating gear, extensible couplings between the last-named shafts and the pivotal shafts for the traction-wheels, and bevel-wheels on said pivotal shafts and on the traction-wheels, whereby the motor drives both traction-wheels while pivotal and'vertical movements of the latter relative to the motor are permitted.

JOSEPH H. HOADLEY.

Witnesses:

. A. P. KNIGHT,

HARRY E. KNIGHT. 

